Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
February 9th marks the anniversary of the death of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich in 1824. An Augustinian nun, she was highly favoured by God from a very young age with the grace of having intimate knowledge of the divine through visions and supernatural visits from her guardian angel, many saints, Our Lady, and of course,[…]
I’m not sure how morally sound this is, but perhaps if the trucker – or rail conductor – proceeded more slowly, they would have plenty of time to get out of the way. As Johnny Cash crooned, I hear that train a comin’, it’s rollin’ down the tracks… https://twitter.com/i/status/1228642581392875520
Symbols mean something, and today is the 60th anniversary of our adoption, back in 1965 under Lester B. Pearson, of a the ‘maple leaf’ as our national flag, replacing the richer symbolism of the Canadian Red Ensign. Whatever one’s aesthetic tastes, the union jack, the lion rampant, signified a robustness and strength, now lost in[…]
I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love. (Dr. Seuss)
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones (Saint Thomas More, +1535)
There are so many different approaches to prayer, which may, following Saint Teresa of Avila, be described as ‘conversation with God’. I recently attended a Catholic conference which aimed to facilitate the encounter of young Catholics with the person of Christ through a very emotional and charismatic experience. Like so many others, the organizers of[…]
On this world day of the sick, under the patronage of Our Lady of Lourdes, ‘tis perhaps requisite that we ask how bad is the coronavirus. By ‘bad’ we mean, how lethal, and how easily transmitted, which go together. If a virus is too lethal, then it burns itself out, killing its victims before they[…]
Que soy era immaculada concepciou – I am the Immaculate Conception (the ‘Lady’ to Bernadette Soubirous, March 25, 1858)
We Catholics are now perforce to ponder more deeply the limits of Magisterial authority – specifically papal pronouncements – in light of the current holder of the office. As we await whatever is in store for us in the Amazonian post-synodal exhortation, the reader may peruse this hard-hitting article from National Review writer Daniel Mahoney.[…]
Today, with Saint Josephine Bakhita, we also celebrate Saint Jerome Emiliani (+1537), who ran away from his home in Venice at the age of 15 after his father’s death, becoming a soldier in the wars then raging, taken prisoner, and underwent a deep conversion from his youthful indifference to religion, after what he deemed a[…]
